In contrast to Paranormal Activity 2, Wrong Turn (2003) is less realistic, due to the fact that it contains scary looking individuals that live in the middle of no where and no one is still aware of them. This film shows how many people go camping and majority don't come back. This is very rear, ever since when someone is missing, police would usually search for that person until they find him/her.
Furthermore, the lighting used at the opening is very unusual for a horror film. However, I believe that this is particulary interesting, because the target audience don't know what to expect. Although, the use of non-diegetic sound clearly signifies that something is going to happen, so ir prepares the audience, but still makes the audience jump and is unexpected which is one of the conventions of horror/thriller.
Moreover, the squeeing sound (non-diegetic sound) at the beggining of the trailer is another convention that all horror/thriller films use to attract the target audience, because as soon as they hear an upbeat sound they want to know what happens next as the non-diegetic sound is leading to a climax.
What's more, the fast editing gets the audience so caught up watching the horror film, so they don't even realise that eventually it's going to lead to the climax and they will be frightened.
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